The first three days of school have gone well.  We have gotten ready early enough to walk/ride bikes!  On the first day, JB and I were getting ready to go get them, when it started raining.  There were big clouds looming.  It was not a heavy rain, but rain.  Since we are about 5-6 blocks from the school, I opted to drive down there.  Boy, am I glad I did.  About 2 minutes after all the kids got out, the skies opened up and it was torrential downpour for about 15 minutes.  The kind of rain with really big rain drops that sting.  By the time we got to the car, we were dripping wet - it took my shoes almost 24 hours to dry out.  I can't imagine what it would have been like if we did not have the car.

The other day I had my appt to get my stitches out.  I had arraigned a play date for the boys.  The friend who was watching the kids does not handle chaos well, so when the younger two repeatedly acted up and fought, I figured I could not leave them both with my friend.  So, I took Jbird with me to my appt.  He watched the nurse take out my stitches and x-ray my finger.  Then I went down the hall for a homemade splint.  The gal making my splint got a kick out of Jbird - he was playing with some of her therapy 'tools' and she was very impressed with his ability to manipulate the tools.

Then I had another appt for a spot on my leg that had recently appeared and was not going away.  This was a doctor I had never been to but he was great.  He said it looked totally benign but in all his years, he learned better to be safe than sorry.  So, he took me to a back room to cut out a small spot.  I got up on the table and told Jbird he did not have to watch.  I was not sure how he would react...silly me.  That kiddo was almost nose to nose with the doctor as he gave me a lidocane shot to numb my shin, then he proceeded to cut out a very small area and put in one stitch.    Jbird did not flinch.  The doctor was shocked that Jbird watched all of that without even wincing.  Jbird made a comment a couple of times about there being more blood, but he was not phased a bit.  When the doctor commented on Jbird's resolve a second time, Jbird just kind of smiled and said "I go hunting and fishing with my dad all the time so none of that blood stuff bothers me".  It did not even bother him when his momma was in pain and wanting to scream from the shot :-).  (The spot came back negative.)

Looks like we are heading out on Saturday morning to go camping with some friends.  Hopefully if the weather cooperates, we will be gone Sat and Sun evening.  Sad that this will be our first camping trip of the summer, and probably our last!  We will be sure to enjoy it!